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The Annual General Meeting of the Society is to be held on Saturday 13th April 2024 at 6.30pm (BST) via ZOOM. It has been decided to arrange a Zoom AGM because the 2024 Conference is not being held until September 2024 and our Constitution provides for the AGM to be held in April or as...

The Richard Filmer Archive we told you about (earlier news article) has now been released. At present there are about 250 images available and more are being added as time allows. This is a fairly time consuming job so please be patient if you find the Category you want has not yet become availab...

At long last we can now confirm the dates and venue for the 2024 Conference. The Conference will be held in Sheffield at The Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria, Sheffield from Friday 27th September 2024 to Sunday 29th September 2024. The final visits have not yet been arranged but a programme will be a...

TATHS wishes all our members and visitors a very Merry (and tool filled) Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Now the time is here to look for that perfect Christmas present, many of you are wondering what you can get for the tool fanatic who has everything.  The video here may provide the answer. If you cannot quite run to the price of that then surely the next best gift would be an annual membersh...

Whoops! We got it wrong.  We told you the Conference would be held on 26th April 2024 to 28th April. Sadly we find that those dates clash with the World Snooker Championships that are being held in Sheffield. We would not wish to disrupt the snooker by drawing away so many of the fans to jo...

Please note that payment can be made for all shop items by debit or credit card as well as Paypal or bank transfer.  To pay by bank transfer choose Offline Payment at the checkout and an invoice will be generated showing the TATHS bank details. To pay by debit or credit card choose the Paypa...

Coming soon The Richard Filmer Archive The first batch So far about 500 photographs are ready for the website and have been arranged into categories of trades or subjects. These include: carts, carving, coaches, coopering, food preparation, rakem...

We have added a new link to our Museum Websites. The Natural Whetstone and Hone Museum in Kyoto, Japan has a very interesting English Language version. The museum has a link to the TATHS website too.

Randle Holme's Academy of Armory is a seventeenth century Universal Encyclopaedia, whose value for early modern social history and as a source for the study of material culture has long been recognised. In 2000, the British Library published the CD-ROM, Living and Working in Seventeeth Century En...